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    THE DELORES TAYLOR ARTHUR VIRTUAL INVITATIONAL

    1-2 October 2021

    DEADLINE
    28 September 2021
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to middle and high school students
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    S​peech OR debate only. You must choose one or the other. But if you sign up in speech, you can select up to 3 events.
    ​
    Other than Extemp and Impromptu, speech is asynchronous (pre-recorded).
    For asynchronous speech, events with more than 7 entries will break to a final round @ 1pm Saturday. Events with 7 or less entries will be decided by the cumulative four round total.  ​

    PF/LD will use Sept/Oct topics.

    ​Entry Price

    One speech and parent is judging $80
    Two speech and parent is judging $110
    Three speech and parent is judging $140
    ​
    LD and parent is judging $85
    PF and parent is judging $75

    If you are opting out of judging, you will pay an additional $110.

    Each person in a PF/Policy/Duo team would be responsible of providing their own judge, so one PF/Policy/Duo team would need to either provide two judges, both pay the judge fee, or one of each option.

    Registration will not be complete until payment is received.
    NOTE: We will charge set up fees if we have to create tabroom.com accounts for judges. It is recommended you do so on your own.

    Schedule

    Please note that all times are in CENTRAL STANDARD TIME (CST).

    ​LD/PF DEBATE SCHEDULE
    LD/PF Debate Schedule: All times CST.  Tech time begins 15 minutes before the round start time.

    Friday, Oct. 1
    Round 1: 4:00pm
    Round 2: 6:00pm
    Round 3: 8:00pm

    Saturday, Oct. 2
    Round 4:  9:00am
    Round 5:  11:00am
    Round 6:   1:30pm
    Quarters:   3:30pm
    Semis:    5:30pm
    Finals: 7:30pm


    LIVE EXTEMP/IMPROMPTU SCHEDULE
     
    Friday, Oct. 1
    Round 1:  5:00pm
    Extemp Draw: 4:30pm
    Round 2: 7:00pm
    Extemp Draw: 6:30pm

    Saturday, Oct. 2
    Round 3: 9:00am
    Extemp Draw: 8:30am
    Round 4: 11:00am
    Extemp Draw: 10:30am
    Finals: 1:00pm
    Extemp Draw:12:30pm

    ​
    ASYNCHRONOUS SPEECH SCHEDULE
    Asynchronous Speech Schedule
     
    Sep 28, 2021 - deadline to send Youtube speech link to Nadia at [email protected]
     
    Sep 30 @ 8:00 pm- Oct 2 @ 10:00 am: Judges will be assigned rounds by 8:00pm on Thursday.  Ballots are due at 10am on Saturday, October 2nd.  Failure to accomplish this may result in fines.  We don’t want to do this.

    Events with more than 7 entries will break to a final round @ 1pm Saturday. Events with 7 or less entries will be decided by the cumulative four round total.  ​

    Drop Fee

    Drop fees will be the same amounts as the entry fee PLUS any fees the tournament charges us for late drops. Drop requests should be made to Victor and Nadia.

    Please do not drop out last minute to avoid being charged these fees.

    Contact Info

    Victor Rivas Umana
    Contact email:  [email protected]

    Nadia Budiman 
    Contact email: [email protected]

    Or [email protected]

    Registration Form


    STUDENT INFORMATION

    PARENT CONTACT INFORMATION
    Your email address will be the one included when we send the logistics email.

    EVENT SELECTION
    Students are able to enter in up to 3 speech events OR one debate event. You cannot choose both.
    Got any questions? Please email [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
    BOTH partners must fill out form and pay in order to be registered!
    ​​NOTE:
    If you are not listing it here, please send your speech video link to [email protected], [email protected] by September 28th the latest. Best way to share your video is to upload it to Youtube and make it unlisted.
    Asynchronous speech events with more than 7 entries will break into finals @1 pm CST on Saturday, Oct 2nd.


    ​JUDGE PROVISION
    Signing up a judge without having a Tabroom account will result in us charging you for the set up fee. You can do this easily on your own by going to tabroom.com. It takes less than a minute.

    First time judging? Click here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.

    ​Tournaments encourage judges to have a paradigm on their Tabroom account, which can be a few sentences on your preferences of debating styles, etc. See here for example. It doesn't need to be this long, but make sure to add something before you sign up. For example: 
    "I am a parent, please speak clearly and slowly and avoid technical jargon".

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

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Check our home page for the schedule!


School year Hours

M-F: 3:45 pm - 8:30 pm 
Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Telephone

510-270-8480
510-470-0531

Email (preferred)

For more info email us at: [email protected]

Locations

Fremont: 200 Brown Rd #201, Fremont, CA 94539

Cupertino: 20432 Silverado Avenue Suite 211, Cupertino, CA 95014

Aborn Institute: 2804 Riedel Road, San Jose, CA 95135 

​​​​Dublin: Loving Tree Academy, 6693 Owens Dr, Pleasanton, CA 94588​​
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